The album revisits Slim Shady's usual obsessions so thoroughly that it sometimes threatens to become a rerun.
All of Galeano's usual obsessions are vividly represented here: US imperialism, the pharmaceutical industry, western governments, the military, the church, advertising, business, Hollywood.
Though this is outside my usual obsessions, I agreed to blog for Ada Lovelace Day today, celebrating women in technology.
Giuliani's advisers, meanwhile, have come up with a truly national electoral strategy that represents a sharp departure from the usual obsession with Iowa and New Hampshire.
Naming The Ghost of Tom Joad after The Grapes of Wrath's Depression martyr, and the replacement of his usual obsession with cars by railroad tracks in Nebraska and Joad tell you how distanced and imaginary this antique Americana was to him.
Common obsessions include fear of contamination, fixation on symmetry and orderliness and somatic and aggressive obsessions.
For instance, they have compulsions, but not the usual accompaniment, obsessions.
Eleven is a little early for adolescence, but Gary, as he likes to remind us, is precocious, and by the time he's reached his 14th summer -- the subject of this novel -- he's a full-blown teenager for sure, fully equipped with the usual adolescent obsessions: sex, the dorkiness of his older sister, sex, the denseness of his parents, sex, sports, rock 'n' roll and sex, pretty much in that order.
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS * 1/2 (out of four) -- This modest fantasy feels like a mishmash of the usual Terry Gilliam obsessions, but less so.
There has been the usual British obsession, media-fuelled, of separating them out in terms of perceived class, as if the only thing that counted about anyone, ever, was where they went to school.
Thus, "The Wait" avoids the usual musical obsession for complication as an end in itself.
